quotes about Femme

“The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.”

“When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?”

“When I was a 21-year-old intern at CBS, I was told I had crossed eyes and shouldn't try to be on air. That's when I decided I was going to be behind the scenes.”

“American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative — I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities.  I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.”

“White people are so unappreciative, they don't even acknowledge and understand what it means to be white in Canada, and all the layers of privilege that come with that. So they're shocked when somebody says, 'What just happened is racist,' and they said, 'Oh no, couldn't possibly be.' They see racism as people with KKK gowns and pointy hoods with eyes cut out. And we had those too.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

“I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.”

“Being on daytime TV has its benefits. You can still have a life and you know you have a check coming every week.”

“A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”

Source : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

“Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.”

“This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the most learned and cultured poets, authors, musicians, and architects of the time - relying solely on his remarkable memory during conversations with them.”

Source : Indu Sundaresan (2012). “The Twentieth Wife”, p.131, HarperCollins Publishers India